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3D Creations provides more efficient prototyping
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students Jesse DePinto and Matthew Juranitch started their business, 3D Creations LLC, to bring inexpensive 3D printing to other businesses.
Construction pickup helps Empire Level grow
Mukwanago-based level and tool manufacturer Empire Level Mfg. Corp. is growing as construction picks up for its customers.
Allow employees to grow
Mark Sellers is CEO of MGS Mfg. Group, a $150 million company headquartered in Germantown, with facilities in the United States, Mexico and Ireland. MGS provides engineered solutions to the plastics industry. Sellers began the company in 1982 as a small tool and die shop. Today, MGS employs more than 500 people in Wisconsin, with an additional 500 employees worldwide. Sellers says employees can become valuable assets if they are allowed room to grow.
Listening: A key to success
Whether I am coaching leaders, executives, employees, salespeople or individuals for personal growth, often the need to improve one's listening becomes a focus, if greater success is the goal.
Spiritual intelligence provides deeper wisdom
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be bold: Culture of Innovation drives Pinstripe’s growth
Pinstripe Inc. has been doubling in size every 12 to 18 months since it was founded in 2005, and the Brookfield-based company recently received a substantial investment from California private equity firm Accel-KKR.
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How to come out on top in a sluggish economy
In case the sluggishness we are feeling in the economy continues beyond the election, this is a good time to revisit what to do. In periods like this, cash is king and you need to operate accordingly; you may not be able to cover up mistakes by growing revenue. Here are some additional thoughts:
Grant to fund study of biomarkers in heart failure
Scientists from the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and Froedtert Hospital will use a one-year, $50,000 grant from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin (CTSI) to research a specific type of heart failure and pinpoint biomarkers that could help with earlier diagnosis and treatment. Researchers will focus on identifying biomarkers involved in cardiac dysfunction, which might allow clinicians to diagnose and decide a treatment route before irreversible cardiac damage affects a patient.
Growing Power to develop community food centers with $5 million grant
Growing Power announced plans to create community food centers at locations across the country with a five-year, $5 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
BizTimes invites nonprofits to participate in 2013 Giving Guide
BizTimes Milwaukee invites southeastern Wisconsin nonprofit organizations to take advantage of a year-long marketing opportunity by submitting information to be featured in the 2013 BizTimes Giving Guide, a print and digital publication to showcase nonprofit organizations seeking support from the business community.
